David A. Bednar Quotes
Total immersion in and saturation with the Savior's gospel are essential steps in the process of being born again.
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When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
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I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
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Tony Blair is a war criminal, and I think he should be tried as a war criminal. Then I see Bono and him as pals, and I'm going, 'I don't like that.' Do I think George Bush is a war criminal? Probably - but the difference between him and Tony Blair is that Blair is intelligent. So, he has no excuse.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
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Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.
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It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
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Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other.
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So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, 'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails.' Well at best I've got one of the two of those.
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The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.
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I can't copy nature.
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I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors . . . and they gave me to understand that if they had had the arranging of the garden it would have been finished long ago - whereas I don't believe a garden is ever finished. They have all gone now, thank heaven.
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I would never have discovered alcohol.
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I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot.
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On every level, despite differences in personalities and jobs, every single human being needs recognition and support.”
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Total immersion in and saturation with the Savior's gospel are essential steps in the process of being born again.
